FAIR Health, Inc.

In August 2024, overweight and obesity entered the national top five telehealth diagnostic categories for the first time this year, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. Overweight and obesity joined the national rankings in fifth position, replacing joint/soft tissue diseases and issues. The data represent the commercially insured population, excluding Medicare Fee-for-Service, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid. View the FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker here: https://lnkd.in/gAY9bz8D Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/ejmivhS3 #telehealth #telehealthtracker #obesity #data #healthcare #transparency

In July 2024, telehealth utilization decreased nationally and in every US census region, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. Nationally, telehealth claim lines fell from 4.89 percent of medical claim lines in June to 4.74 percent in July, a decrease of 3.0 percent. In the West, the telehealth share of medical claim lines decreased 3.3 percent; in the Midwest and Northeast, it fell 1.7 percent; and in the South, it fell 1.0 percent. The data represent the commercially insured population, excluding Medicare Fee-for-Service, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid. View the FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker here: https://lnkd.in/gAY9bz8D Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/epeHq7a2 #telehealth #telehealthtracker #data #healthcare #transparency

Today FAIR Health launched the Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker Trending Reports, a free set of infographics that show national and regional six-month trends in telehealth. A brief released simultaneously offers a user’s guide to the Telehealth Tracker Trending Reports. The Telehealth Tracker Trending Reports are based on the Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, which, since May 2020, has used FAIR Health data to track how telehealth is evolving from month to month. The Telehealth Tracker has attracted widespread interest from media outlets, researchers, government officials, health plans, providers and other key healthcare stakeholders. To add another dimension to the Telehealth Tracker, and broaden its lens, FAIR Health created the Telehealth Tracker Trending Reports, which offer a window into changes over longer periods than one month. These first trending reports show national and regional trends in telehealth utilization—as measured by telehealth’s percentage of medical claim lines—and the top five telehealth diagnostic categories across each month from January to June 2024. The data represent the commercially insured population, excluding Medicare Fee-for-Service, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid. To view the Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker Trending Reports, click here: https://lnkd.in/gAY9bz8D To read the user's guide, click here: https://lnkd.in/dkDTqVh9 To read the press release, click here: https://lnkd.in/dGYhGZmM #telehealth #telehealthtracker #trends #healthcare #transparency

FAIR Health, Inc., the national, independent nonprofit, today announced collaborations with clinical sites at four universities under a national initiative generously funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF). The academic centers are Penn Medicine, The Ohio State University, Emory University and the University of Rochester Medical Center. As part of this groundbreaking effort, clinicians at the four sites, each of which have achieved Age-Friendly Health Systems recognition, are engaging older patients and caregivers at the point of care with healthcare engagement and shared decision-making (SDM) tools provided by FAIR Health, which are available on FAIR Health for Older Adults (fairhealtholderadults.org). Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/evXVNEiB Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System The Ohio State University Emory University University of Rochester Medical Center The John A. Hartford Foundation #olderadults #healthyaging #SDM #healthcare #transparency

Today FAIR Health released the Opioid Tracker, a free, interactive tool tracking opioid abuse and dependence state by state. A brief released simultaneously offers a user’s guide to the Opioid Tracker. Available on FAIR Health’s website fairhealth.org, the Opioid Tracker includes a heat map representing the percentage of patients with opioid abuse and dependence diagnoses compared to all patients receiving medical services in 2023 for each state. Clicking on a state displays an infographic for that state. The infographic includes the top five procedure codes by utilization for opioid abuse and dependence, the top five procedure codes by aggregate allowed amounts for opioid abuse and dependence, the change in the percentage of patients with opioid abuse and dependence diagnoses compared to all patients receiving medical services from 2020 to 2023, and the distribution of patients with opioid abuse and dependence diagnoses by age and gender. There is also a similar infographic for the nation as a whole. The source of the data is FAIR Health’s repository of commercial healthcare claims, now at over 48 billion claim records, the largest such repository in the nation. View the Opioid Tracker here: https://lnkd.in/ei7xSur7 Read the brief here: https://lnkd.in/eCK7cURM Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/ekQHvNDJ #opioidabuse #opioiddependence #healthcare #data #transparency

In June 2024, telehealth utilization increased nationally and in the West, Northeast and South, but decreased in the Midwest, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. Nationally, telehealth claim lines rose from 4.82 percent of medical claim lines in May to 4.89 percent in June, an increase of 1.5 percent. In the West, the telehealth share of medical claim lines increased 1.4 percent; in the Northeast, it rose 0.8 percent; and in the South, it rose 0.3 percent. In the Midwest, the telehealth share of medical claim lines fell 1.7 percent. The data represent the commercially insured population, excluding Medicare Fee-for-Service, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid. Press release: https://lnkd.in/eR2jBPuN FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker: https://lnkd.in/gAY9bz8D #telehealth #tracker #data #healthcare #transparency

In 3 years, mental health disorders rose 52.9% in pregnant women - READ MORE via Becker's Healthcare - https://lnkd.in/eK9e43gR #mentalhealth #givingbirth #pregnancy #data #transparency

From 2020 to 2023, mental health disorders in pregnant women rose 52.9 percent and substance use disorders in pregnant women increased 8.2 percent. During that same period, potential complications of pregnancy and delivery rose 19.8 percent. These and other findings are reported in a FAIR Health white paper released today: Giving Birth in the United States: A Study of Commercial Claims. Read the new white paper here: https://lnkd.in/efpSuUT7 Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/e3BfM-bz #mentalhealth #givingbirth #pregnancy #whitepaper #data #transparency

Complications in pregnancy jumped during pandemic - READ MORE via Axios - https://lnkd.in/e7BhKXy9 Tina Reed #pregnancy #givingbirth #pandemic #data #whitepaper

FAIR Health will be exhibiting at SIIA's National Conference in Phoenix on September 22–24. We would love to connect and hope you can visit us at booth 502 to learn about our surprise billing solutions, benchmark data products, data contribution program and more! To learn more about the conference, visit https://lnkd.in/ePcqh-Hi Self-Insurance Institute of America, Inc. #SIIA #Transparency